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What Is Quality English-Learner Teaching? No One Really Knows, Researcher Says

By Corey Mitchell on
November 4, 2016 2:48 PM

Patricia Gándara, a research professor and co-director of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, says that researchers' overemphasis on English-language-learner reclassification, the time it takes for ELLs to be deemed English proficient, has hamstrung efforts to answer a more important question: What does it take to be a competent, high-quality teacher for ELLs?

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